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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Four years.

2. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Antithesis and cacophony.
(b) Consonance and antithesis.
(c) Cacophony and parallelism.
(d) Parallelism and consonance.

3. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) An auditory image of the water.
(b) An olfactory image of smoke.
(c) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(d) A visual image of the mountains.

5. Which technique is used in the phrase "the fever of the world" in line 55?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?

2. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?

3. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?

4. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?

5. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?

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